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  Conflicts, rural development and food security in West Africa

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  This paper examines food security in the context of conflict in West Africa, examining the relationship between the two.
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  Time for Transparency: Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Across the globe money that should be funding development is being misappropriated by corrupt elites. In Angola a quarter of the state’s annual oil income goes missing. In many resources rich countries, mining and energy companies facilitate off-the-books payments as part of anti-competitive, under-the-table methods of winning business.
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  Preliminary study on the impact of international economic and financial issues on the enjoyment of human rights

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003

  This study explores the implications of international economic issues, mainly driven by the process of globalisation, for the realisation of the right to development, and proposes avenues for action for all actors in the international community.Findings and conclusions include:the opportunities provided by globalisation and integration into the world economy to developing countries have
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  Social protection and pro-poor agricultural growth: what scope for synergies?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004

  Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations.
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  Participation: rhetoric or reality in Ethiopia?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are participatory partnerships a way to keep development effective and equitable? Or are they unrealistic and difficult to achieve? Is the ideal of equal rights for all at risk of becoming a mask for power relations?
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  Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  The humanitarian crisis in southern Africa: volume 1

  International Development Committee, UK, 2003

  In early 2002 southern Africa was gripped by food shortages. These were just one aspect of a complex humanitarian crisis, with impacts ranging across all sectors, from agriculture, to education and health. The trigger for the crisis was erratic rainfall.
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  Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.

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